Although we got a lot of tiger meat, we couldn't let the wild vegetables we had already gathered go to waste.

Xuefu patted her clueless son.

The little ones then noticed Liu Junlan's displeased expression and exchanged glances.

Lin Zheyun: It must be you two idiots who angered Grandma!

Lin Ziqiu & Zihan: Slander! This is blatant slander!

"Why is Grandma angry?" Lin Wanyue asked curiously and boldly, nestled on Liu Junlan's lap.

The children quickly looked up at Liu Junlan.

Grandma might hit my little sister when she's angry, right?

Anyway, whenever they angered Grandma, they would most likely get a beating of bamboo shoots stir-fried with meat.

But the younger sister is still so small, so... how about they offer their little bottoms and let Grandma give them a beating?

Just as the young men were preparing to offer themselves up, Liu Junlan simply patted Lin Wanyue's head.

"Wanwan, you will always be Grandma's granddaughter, and no one can buy you away."

"Buy my sister? Who wants to buy my sister!" Lin Zheyun was the first to jump out, her little face turning red with anger.

Lin Zihan and Lin Ziqiu felt the same way, and said angrily, "Wanwan is our sister, she can't become someone else's sister!"

"Mother, what's going on? Has someone been talking nonsense?" Xuefu also became serious.

Liu Junlan was also very angry, and she felt like getting angry whenever she brought it up.

She slammed her hand heavily on the table, startling the bowls and chopsticks on it.

"Who else could it be? It's that crazy old woman Zhang Cuihong! I really don't know where she heard those nonsense things, saying she wanted to take Wanwan to their house to live with for a few days, and then send her back to us once they've settled down!" Liu Junlan was furious. "Listen to what she's saying!"

"Wanwan is my granddaughter, for life. Why is she considered a money-losing commodity in their eyes? They want to buy me, so I have to sell? They're dreaming!" Liu Junlan couldn't help but curse.

Xuefu casually covered Lin Wanyue's ears.

Lin Wanyue herself never expected that someone would want to spend money to support her.

This feeling is quite novel.

But thinking about it carefully, what her grandmother said was actually true!

Zhang Cuihong's idea shows that she doesn't treat Lin Wanyue as a human being at all.

Like merchandise, she could buy and sell as she pleased.

"Hmph!" Lin Wanyue instantly turned into a furious little pufferfish, slamming her little fist on the table, though her force wasn't enough to make the bowls and chopsticks jump. "She's such a bad girl!"

“Yes, yes, we’ll never play with their kids again!” the brothers chimed in.

The three of them huddled together, chattering amongst themselves for a while, before saying with lingering fear, "I had this feeling for the past couple of days that someone was trying to take my sister away from me, and it turns out it was true!"

"Whose child is this?" Xuefu and Liu Junlan also came over and asked.

"It's that snotty-nosed guy. The other day he stole his sister's silk flower and gave it to his younger sister to wear. I suspect he just wanted to trick our sister away," Lin Zihan said with certainty.

"And that family at the village entrance, they even wanted to take my little sister to play in the mud, they must have been planning to kidnap her!" Lin Ziqiu's eyes widened, regretting that he hadn't seen through those guys' true colors sooner.

Xuefu frowned: "But isn't that little girl at the village entrance only two years old?"

Is there any little girl smarter than my own daughter?

How did they learn to abduct people at such a young age?

Lin Ziqiu nodded and said, "That's right! Anyone who tries to kidnap my sister is a bad person."

Lin Wanyue: "..."

The brothers' love is truly impenetrable.

The whole family was united in their opposition to Zhang Cuihong's outlandish idea.

"At least you rascals have some conscience, knowing that your sister is good to you." This finally brought a smile to Liu Junlan's face.

"Hehehe." The four brothers laughed a little embarrassedly.

Actually, Zhang Cuihong wasn't wrong. It seems that their family has been able to have enough to eat ever since their younger sister came to live.

But regardless of whether they had enough to eat at home, they never thought of giving their younger sister away to someone else!

...

The Lin family had built a small, round cave dwelling in the corner of their courtyard.

Tigers are valuable from head to toe; their skin can be used to make bedding or fur coats.

This thing is much warmer than a cotton-padded coat that will harden into a solid block in less than two years. Especially in winter, when water freezes instantly, you can't go out without a fur coat, and your hands and feet can get frostbite.

But although fur coats are good, they are not easy to make.

First of all, the material is hard to find. The easiest thing for ordinary people to catch is field mice in the fields. The skin of those mice is not even the size of a palm. If you want to collect enough to make a fur coat, you'll have to wait until the monkey month and the horse month!

As a hunter, Lin Weiming had a certain advantage in this matter. At least he could catch a few rabbits every year. After skinning them, he could make a fur coat for each member of his family to wear for warmth.

Now that we have such a large tiger skin, it's not only enough to make a big fur coat for Lin Wanyue, but also enough to make a woolen quilt.

However, tiger skins cannot be used immediately; they must first be tanned to soften the fur and eliminate any unpleasant odor before they can be used for production.

It just so happened that Lin Weiming had injured his leg and couldn't go to work in the fields.

The tiger skin was given to him to tan. In addition, the tiger meat, from which the bones were removed, was cut into strips, pierced with palm leaves, and hung on the small cave to be smoked into cured meat.

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